Cloud, Dana L.
The Critique of Domination and the Critique of Freedom: A Gramscian Perspective
This article recounts the significance of Raymie McKerrow's article "Critical Rhetoric:
Theory and Praxis" for scholars in the field of communication studies. In contrast to the
Foucauldian stance on domination and freedom put forward by McKerrow, I argue that the
Marxist and antifascist activist Antonio Gramsci offers an account of domination and
freedom in the theory of hegemony that is internally consistent. In addition to its
coherence, hegemony theory is rooted in historical materialist practice that urges
challenges to capitalism as a system rather than exercising contingent judgments without
a clear goal, or telos. Gramsci's "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will" is an
urgent corrective to the "critique of freedom" and poststructuralist thought more generally
in the present political moment.
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Cloud, Dana L. |
| Subjects |
Ideologia
Egemonia Marxismo
Ideology
Hegemony Marxism |
